AFP - A major earthquake measuring magnitude 7.1 has rocked Taiwan, geologists said, rattling high-rise buildings and disrupting telephone services.

AFP - At least 27 people who escaped a deadly earthquake were killed and six remained missing in a landslide that buried dozens of houses on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

AFP - Evelyn Manjares will spend Christmas digging through rubble that was once her home on the foothills of the Mayon volcano in the eastern Philippines where typhoons and mudflows killed more than 1,200 people late last month.

AFP - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck India's Andaman islands, prompting residents fearful of a repeat of the deadly 2004 tsunami to flee their homes, geologists and witnesses said.

AFP - Authorities in southern Chile battled snow squalls as they searched for three Israeli tourists who went missing on the foothills of the Puyehue volcano, police said.

AFP - A moderate 5.1 magnitude deep-sea quake has struck northeast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.